Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.
Answer Quotes
And I also hope that his (Captain Nemo) powerful vessel has conquered the sea at its most terrible gulf, and that the Nautilus has survived where so many other vessels have been lost! If it be so – if Captain Nemo still inhabits the ocean, his adopted country, may hatred be appeased in that savage […]
They sent an answer back to me. The little fishes’ answer was “We cannot do it, sir, because… ” I sent a letter back to say It would be better to obey. But someone came to me and said “The little fishes are in bed.” I said to him, and I said it plain “Then […]
Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life.
The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer.
“It’s time for you to answer now”, the Queen said, looking at her watch: “open your mouth a little wider when you speak, and always say ‘Your Majesty’.”
The job is to ask questions – it always was – and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
There is more learning in the question itself than the answer.
It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.
People who live in glass houses have to answer the bell.
